10 Best Air Purifying Plants for Your Home to Improve Air Quality

10 air purifying plants to have in your home to release oxygen and purify air. Great for combating pollution. You don’t need a big balcony or terrace for them, you can place them in your living room, bedroom, drawing room or office or any space inside your home

With the prevailing air pollution around us, we all are stressed and troubled how to sustain in this condition and what measures we should take to make the air around us a little better and pure. The present pollution level has increased a lot, causing a thick layer of haze, even the sun rays are unable to reach to us. This situation is causing some serious health problems like burning of eyes, choking lungs, headache, frequent cold and cough etc.

There is no permanent solution to this problem but if we all join our hands together we can fight back and can save our lives and our future generation.

So first and most important thing is, use N-95/N-99/Vogmasks air purifying masks (easily available on pharmacies and online stores like amazon) when you are out. Towards the end of this article we will also talk about small steps that we can easily implement in our every day life to make environment cleaner and staying healthy.

Peace Lily

This is a wonderful air purifying houseplant that can bloom indoor as well. The flowers can make the near about areas pleasant with its good fragrance. This plant prefers shady areas and just keep the soil moist, avoid over watering.

It removes ammonia, benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene from air.

If you keep this air purifier plant indoor – keep your kids and pets away from this.

Garden mum

This plant stands highest for the air purification. When it blooms, it purifies the air. When it stops blooming you can keep the plant outside. this plant prefers moist soil and you need to water the plant every other day.

Dracaena

This plant comes in almost 40 different varieties. It comes in different shapes, sizes and colours. Leaves of this plant is generally long and wide with white or red lines. Too much water may be harmful for plant’s growth thus keep the soil damp but avoid over watering.

This plant removes formaldehyde, benzene, trichloroethylene and xylene from air.

Golden Pothos

This plant is well known for removing many air pollutants quite effectively. This plant does not need much care and can grow in different conditions. It is better to water the plant when the soil gets dry and keep trimming the tendrils when the plant gets too big.

It is known to remove formaldehyde, xylene, toluene, benzene and carbon monoxide from air.

Aloe Vera

You can easily grow this plant at your home. The clear liquid which comes out of its leaves has a wound healing, antibacterial and anti inflammatory properties. The liquid is very good for you skin as well.

Besides the plants mentioned above palm trees, rubber plants, tulsi etc. are also considered to be the good air purifier plants.

It’s ok.. if you can not plant all of them in you home. But you can keep some of these good evergreen plants in your home and can make the air of your home cleaner and fresh.

Being the most advanced species on earth, it is our foremost duty to save our environment and save our mother earth. Thus it is our humble request to you all please plant as much trees as you can around you. Trees like Peepal, Mango, Neem, Ashok are really good to absorb bad pollutants from air and give us oxygen to breathe in. These trees have good life and can be planted easily. So whenever you get time just plant trees and take care of those trees. We all will do this for our future generations. What they will do with the fortune we are collecting for them when they will not have the fresh air to breathe.

Some other easy tips to combat pollution and keep air clean

Avoid using some harsh detergents, floor cleaners, room freshners, mosquito repellents, deo etc. These things have some really bad chemicals which make the indoor air bad.

Keep plants in and out of your house to make the air better around your home and keep your home properly ventilated.

Try to pool your car. If possible use public transportation.

Go out when it is necessary. If possible opt for online shopping or we can call the grocer for daily needs. In that case only one vehicle will be out to deliver the goods to many.

Don’t burn your garbage or dry leaves.

Above all, try to eat fresh and healthy food. Increase your Vit-C intake, have lots of lemon water, oranges, kiwi and amla. Have good amount of omega -3 and fatty acids, for this you can have walnuts and flax seeds etc.

Also you can use some air purifiers to clean your indoor air.

Hope you likes this list of indoor plants that purify the air, plant air purifying house plants today as all you need is some space. Take safety measures and stay healthy.

An MBA Professional, used to work with bank in Forex deptt. I am a mother of a 2 ½ year old kid. In my spare time I Love to travel, read books and gardening. Great fan of Dan Brown and Jeffrey Archer novels.

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